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Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

F.W. Clark papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Clark FW
Abstract

Correspondence and papers of Frederick W. Clark, Chicago building contractor and construction company president. Includes business and some personal correspondence, plus account books and trusteeship papers.

Dates: 1875-1916; Majority of material found within 1903-1916

Henry Blake Fuller papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fuller
Abstract

Correspondence, works and miscellaneous material relating to Henry Blake Fuller, Chicago novelist, essayist, critic, and satirist. The bulk of the collection consists of Fuller's writings, both published and manuscript, and incoming correspondence.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1874 - 1929

Lambert Tree papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.

Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933

Melville E. Stone papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

Milo Kendall papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kendall
Abstract

Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records.

Dates: 1798-1925; Majority of material found within 1845-1906

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 5
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
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Correspondence -- 1801-1850 2
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Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Photographs -- 1851-1900 2
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 2
Accounts payable -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Accounts receivable -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Ambassadors -- Belgium 1
American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Anti-imperialist movements -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Art patronage -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Building trades -- United States 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Business records -- 1851-1900 1
Business records -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Chattel mortgages -- Illinois 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- To 1950 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Children's writings, American 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Personal narratives 1
Clippings -- 1801-1850 1
Clippings -- 1851-1900 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
Construction industry -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Courtship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
Debtor and creditor -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 1
Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Divorce -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Divorce suits -- Illinois 1
Elections -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Estates (Law) -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Families -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Foreign correspondents 1
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Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Homosexuality and literature 1
Husband and wife -- Correspondence 1
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Journalism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Judges -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Law -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Leases -- Illinois 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal instruments -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
Literary critics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
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News agencies 1
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Newspaper publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Norfolk (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Novelists, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Panama Canal (Panama) -- Construction 1
Parent and adult child -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Photographs 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Practice of law -- Illinois -- Princeton -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Princeton (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Railroad accidents -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Railroad law -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Railroads -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Railroads -- Right of way -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Railroads -- United States -- Consolidation -- History 1
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Names
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 2
Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925 1
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 1
American House Hotel (Princeton, Ill.) 1
American Medical Association 1
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American National Red Cross 1
Associated Press 1
Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982 1
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956 1
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 1
Browne, Charles Francis 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield), 1865-1945 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 1
Clark Construction Company 1
Clark family 1
Clark, F. W. (Frederick William), 1857-1916 1
Clark, Jonathan, 1902- 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 1859-1920 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
Field, Roswell Martin, 1851-1919 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929 1
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Hatfield, James Taft, 1862-1945 1
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 1
Huggins, E. L. (Eli Lundy), 1842-1929 1
Illinois Grand Trunk Railway Co. 1
International Medical Congress 1
Kendall, Milo, 1819-1905 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 1
Little Room (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Lusitania (Steamship) 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
Morgan, Anna, 1851-1936 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 1
Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948 1
Nye, Bill, 1850-1896 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Pond, Allen Bartlit, 1858-1929 1
Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Russell, Sol Smith, 1848-1902 1
Schlesinger & Mayer 1
Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926 1
Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912 1
Stone family 1
Stone, Herbert Stuart, 1871-1915 1
Stone, Melville Elijah, 1848-1929 1
Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 1
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 1
Tree family 1
Tree, Lambert, 1799-1881 1
Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 1
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
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